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Reps. John Delaney, D-Md., and Mike Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., are urging Congress to use "one-time revenues from repatriated earnings" to help fund the Highway Trust Fund while negotiations for a long-term solution continue. They also recommend forming the American Infrastructure Fund under Delaney's proposed legislation as a long-term solution to raise funds for transportation projects. "Merely continuing with our current level of infrastructure spending will not be enough to make up for this deficit and place us on a path of growth and prosperity in our economic future," wrote Delaney and Fitzpatrick.

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Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., is proposing a new 8.75% tax on offshore corporate income to help bridge the gap in the Highway Trust Fund. Delaney says the measure will also put an end to tax deferrals and encourage more business in the U.S. "The rising threat of corporate inversions, the looming insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund, and the daily problems caused by inadequate infrastructure all mean that we shouldn't delay. It's time for a new solution," he says.

Reps. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., and Steve Womack, R-Ark., both members of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, met with Western Arkansas Regional Intermodal Transportation Authority board members to discuss possible ways to fund the Highway Trust Fund. Among the options presented were raising the price index on gas taxes, repatriating offshore corporate taxes and opening up oil exploration on federal lands. Womack and Shuster say they want to pass a five- to six-year Highway Trust Fund bill that guarantees funding for local transportation projects.

The Harmon Tower in Las Vegas will be the focus of a trial this fall, and lawyers for each side will gather what evidence they can from the building. Once that is done, the tower will be demolished, floor by floor. CityCenter officials have referred to the Harmon Tower as a "monument of construction defects," and now the tower will "come down in a controlled fashion rather than having it slop down to its side," said Mark Hall-Patton, administrator of the Clark County Museum. "There's no room for error. It's not going to be easy to get it down without harming something on its side."

A stretch of highway in the Netherlands features markings that glow in the dark. The paint incorporates "photo-luminescent" powder designed to charge in the daytime and emit green glow during the night. "This road is about safety and envisaging a more self-sustainable and more interactive world," said Daan Roosegaarde, Studio Roosegaarde's founder and lead designer.

Work continues on the $1 billion Grand Parkway extension project in Houston. Segment D, a $147 million portion of the project, has been completed, and involved the construction of nine overpasses, four main lanes and seven toll plazas. Zachry-Odebrecht Parkway Builders continues to build segments F-1, F-2 and G simultaneously.